Re: [gentoo-dev] devleopment sources are no longer 'development' - example

[Marius Mauch]

On 08/25/04  Chris Gianelloni wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 14:22, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:03:51PM -0400, Travis Tilley wrote:
> > > here's an example of how his creates confusion, where on amd64 our
> > >
> > > stable kernel is named development-sources.
> >
> > I agree it's a pain.  Hopefully this can be fixed someday soon with
> > slots.
>
> Is there any way to restrict by slot?  To say, keep an ebuild with a
> SLOT >= x from installing?

Not directly, but as long as the SLOT is derived from PV there shouldn't
be much of a difference from simply package.mask'ing it. 
The current SLOT implementation generally is only good for keeping old
versions around.

Marius